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ill-starred

adj

Definitions

  1. Doomed to a bad fate

    Doomed to a bad fate; hapless.

    • "Do not name it!" answered he, passionately. "God forgive me! I cannot yet bear its name. But for its ill-starred birth, Henriette might now be living. What is there in that unconscious infant to replace its mother?"
    • […] it appears the possibility of the ill-starred Uxbridge-Rickmansworth rail link being built is now bound up with post-war planning. [it was never built]

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